billion call events collected. and stored in the nsa data bases. and close to 150 billion internet records, each day. the document says one to two billion records were added according to the guardian. today, the white house said that not all of the information in the guardian piece today is true. the intelligence community has explained allegations of widespread unchecked access to information are false. access to tools is limited to only personnel who are required access for their assigned tasks. and there are multiple supervisory checks for those in the system who don t have access for achieving that access. joining me now, security expert james bamford.
nsa analysts to collect nearly everything a user does on the internet. that includes personal e-mails, on line chats, web searches and social media activity like facebook chats and private messages. and according to training materials, slides released today. it seems that all an analyst needs to get started is a personal e-mail address or ip address. the guardian x key score collects so much information, though, it can only be stored for three to five days. one nsa report from 2007 estimated that there were 850 billion call events collected. and stored in the nsa data bases. and close to 150 billion internet records, each day. the document says one to two billion records were added according to the guardian. today, the white house said that not all of the information in
information so they can cross reference. you know, our i.r.s. filing with our citizenship, for example. as someone that s worked inside government as an ethical hacker, how much of a risk does something like that pose our personal security? any of these data bases is by definition a huge risk in terms of personal security. but it s also a huge benefit in terms of optimizing your experience because i don t know about you, but i ve always hated going to the doctor s office and entering a thousand forms before i see a doctor. jenna: that s true. so these are both good and bad things and the pandora s box has been opened and we ve already decided we want to share all of our information all the time with facebook, with the c.i.a., with everybody around us. and there s really no way to pull that back into the box. jenna: we would love to have you back on to see what you do, dave. for you and your family to make sure that there s some control because it s easy to feel a little out of cont
e-mails in their data bases that they ve collected over the last several years. what these programs are are very simple screens like the ones supermarket clerks or where all an analyst has to do is enter an i.p. address and it searches the data base and lets them listen to the calls or read the e-mails. kelly: has america turned into a place where our every move is being tracked now? let s bring in constitutional attorney and author of of government of woes: the emerging american police state. pleasure to have you on, john. this is a provocative book. it is a book that when you read it or read excerpts from it, you begin to think this can only happen in the movies. but you re stating this is a real-life police state we re going through in america. why? i equal it an i call it an emerging police state but i have people in the military who say, john, we
city mayor that lists his birthday as 1942 making him 18 years younger and it s being etched. gretchen: he had a good sense of humor. probably wouldn t mind that much. more and more states are building massive data bases of drivers license photos to help identify criminals. that means your d.m.v. photo is being saved into a data base where it is compared against a list of potential crooks. is that fair? is it legal? fox news senior judicial analyst andrew napolitano joins me now. the government will do whatever it can get away with to make its job a little easier. prior to 9/11 if you gave the government any information a photograph for the d.m.v., tax information to the i.r.s., personal information about where you re traveling to for the t.s.a. each department had to keep it separately. after 9/11 they began to share all that. that s how these data bases came into existence. gretchen: recently the supreme court ruled what